Trade Routes The Panama Canal, with its unique location at the narrowest point between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, has had a far- reaching effect on world economic and commercial developments throughout most of this century.
Benoit murdered his wife and son on June 22, 2007, and hanged himself two days later. Research suggests depression and brain damage from numerous concussions are likely contributing factors leading to the crime.
Veteran newscaster David Brinkley dies. Published 5:30 am, Thursday, June 12, 2003. He started out, in 1941, as an $11-a-week newspaper reporter for the Morning Star in Wilmington, N.C. By 1956, as co-anchor of a 15-minute newscast on NBC, he had become as familiar in America as Lucille Ball. David Brinkley, who died Wednesday night at his Houston home of complications from a fall taken last year, will be remembered for earning that familiarity.